Gigged.AI

Infrastructure Engineer – Virtualisation, Contract

Gigged.AI

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: SheffieldUnited Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £550 per day

About the role

  • Build, operate, and maintain enterprise virtualisation platforms (VMware vSphere/ESXi, Hyper-V).
  • Provide day‑2 operational support: monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity optimisation.
  • Execute patching, upgrades, firmware updates, and hardware lifecycle activities.
  • Ensure high availability, clustering, failover, and recovery mechanisms.
  • Own platform lifecycle processes: build standards, upgrades, decommissioning, technical refreshes.
  • Conduct capacity planning and forecasting to meet business demand.
  • Identify and remediate single points of failure; support disaster recovery testing.
  • Develop and maintain automation for provisioning and configuration (scripting/Infrastructure as Code).
  • Standardise virtualisation builds, templates, and configurations.
  • Act as escalation point for complex incidents.
  • Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions.
  • Support controlled change execution following ITIL processes.
  • Ensure platforms meet security standards, hardening guidelines, and regulatory requirements.
  • Work closely with storage, network, OS, cloud, and application teams. Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Requirements

  • Experience with enterprise virtualisation (VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter or equivalent).
  • Proven infrastructure engineering or platform operations experience in enterprise environments.
  • Hands-on with upgrades, patching, performance tuning, troubleshooting.
  • Knowledge of server hardware, storage, and networking related to virtualisation.
  • ITIL-aligned operational experience.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
  • Experience in financial services or regulated industries (desirable).
  • Scripting/automation experience (PowerShell, Python) and Infrastructure-as-Code (desirable).
  • Knowledge of hybrid integration between virtualisation, cloud, and containers (desirable).
  • Disaster recovery/business continuity experience (desirable).
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
VMware vSphereESXiHyper-VscriptingInfrastructure as Codeperformance tuningtroubleshootingcapacity optimisationdisaster recoveryroot cause analysis
Soft Skills
analytical skillsdocumentation skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationescalation management